Twilight: Mark of the Heart

Beneath the peaceful surface of Breaking Dawn, undercurrents have never stopped stirring. Three years have passed. Renesmee Carlie Cullen has grown into a young woman who looks seventeen on the outside, yet carries within her the unique fate of being half human and half vampire. She can transmit thoughts through touch, but her uniqueness has also left her lost in loneliness and uncertainty about who she is. She seems to live a peaceful life in the rain-soaked forests of Forks, yet she can never escape the deep echo left by a touch she shared three years ago with Aro, leader of the Volturi. Then a letter bearing the Volturi crest arrives at the Cullen home from faraway Rome. Aro, the vampire leader with a thousand years of political scheming behind him, who can read minds through touch, has turned his attention to her once again. The Cullen family is gripped by unprecedented fear and opposition, convinced that this is an elaborate trap. Only Renesmee, caught between fear and curiosity, chooses to face the call of fate. She resolutely heads east, not to surrender, but to discover the meaning of her existence and win a chance, however slim, for the fragile peace between the two families. And the feelings between her and Aro, once deemed forbidden, are tempered by war and sacrifice into an unbreakable bond.